I have a pet project (let's call it home brew Plex) that I've started some 10 years ago and every 2 years I come back to it with the same experiment - let's see what do I have to change to be in line with the current javascript trends.
And every time it leads to a complete rewrite.
And I'm not talking about changing Angular to React -- I'm talking about fundamental shifts in paradigm, tooling that falls apart, and a brand new feature that everyone has to use this season.
The paradox is that I've started my career 25 years ago doing frontend - in flash, as JS was almost noexistent in it's current form back then - and still when I have to do small eyecandy or experiment I like to use plain old ES3/ES5 JS that I can author in a notepad and run directly in a browser without needing a tooling pipeline that would put a blush on most game developers.
I think it partially comes from the fact that JS as a modern, full fledged programming language came out of the blue, with sudden demise of flash, catching everyone by surprise.
I remember when companies started shifting to js and asking for senior frontend programmers back in the days. I was thinking to myself - hey, if you want someone with 5 yoe with JS in 2013 then most people in the market will be experts on jquery plugins, not serious programming.
And I think that's the reason why the community as a whole keeps reinventing the wheel and trying to prove themselves so hard.
I have a pet project (let's call it home brew Plex) that I've started some 10 years ago and every 2 years I come back to it with the same experiment - let's see what do I have to change to be in line with the current javascript trends.
And every time it leads to a complete rewrite.
And I'm not talking about changing Angular to React -- I'm talking about fundamental shifts in paradigm, tooling that falls apart, and a brand new feature that everyone has to use this season.
The paradox is that I've started my career 25 years ago doing frontend - in flash, as JS was almost noexistent in it's current form back then - and still when I have to do small eyecandy or experiment I like to use plain old ES3/ES5 JS that I can author in a notepad and run directly in a browser without needing a tooling pipeline that would put a blush on most game developers.
I think it partially comes from the fact that JS as a modern, full fledged programming language came out of the blue, with sudden demise of flash, catching everyone by surprise.
I remember when companies started shifting to js and asking for senior frontend programmers back in the days. I was thinking to myself - hey, if you want someone with 5 yoe with JS in 2013 then most people in the market will be experts on jquery plugins, not serious programming.
And I think that's the reason why the community as a whole keeps reinventing the wheel and trying to prove themselves so hard.